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Friday, January 7, 1944
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The Headlines
ALLIES IN WIDE GAIN; Drive Mile on Ten-Mile Front Astride Highway Leading to Cassino SAN VITTORE IS HALF WON Americans Batter Way Into Heavily Fortified Village in House-to-House Struggle ALLIES IN WIDE GAIN ON ROAD TO ROME FIFTH ARMY MOVES FORWARD IN ITALY
Read in The New York Times →#1 on Your Hit Parade
Paper Doll
The Mills Brothers
The must-have
Slinky
You Share a Birthday With
- Millard Fillmore (1800)
- Pope Gregory XIII (1502)
- Eliezer Ben-Yehuda (1858)
- Joseph Bonaparte (1768)
- Bernadette Soubirous (1844)
Slang
Slang of the decade
General
gobbledygooksnafufubar
Gi
ack-ackdear johnfatiguesroger that
Bobby Soxer
neatodreamydreamboat
Tech Check
Harvard Mark I Computer, Kidney Dialysis Machine & Synthesized Quinine.
Cost of Living (1940)
Loaf of Bread
$0.08
Gallon of Gas
$0.18
Average Home
$2,938
New Car
$850
Time Elapsed
30,100 days ago
(82 years, 170 days)